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fornigh

adv

Etymology

From Middle English forneh, forneah, from Old English fornēah (“very nearly, almost, about”), equivalent to for- + nigh. Compare similarly formed German beinah, Dutch bijna, both meaning “almost”.

  1. inherited from fornēah — “very nearly, almost, about”
  2. inherited from forneh

Definitions

  1. Very near

  2. Very nearly

    Very nearly; almost.

    • It'll be fornigh ten 'ear sin then'

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fornigh. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA